Southport knife attack - 3 children dead & others injured | killer gets 52 years +

Red in STL said:
So his brief is arguing he doesn't have a mental problem to excuse his actions, I'd have thought he would have been arguing the opposite.

I'm just waiting for violent video games, TV and movies to be brought up by someone as an explanation/excuse and how they must all be banned
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Barristers in England primarily owe a duty to the court, above the client. They aren't allowed to make specious arguments.
 
Frosty said:
Barristers in England primarily owe a duty to the court, above the client. They aren't allowed to make specious arguments.
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As do lawyers pretty much everywhere TBH, the rational often used is that someone has to be mentally ill to commit such acts, not really true but not really a specious argument either - in the US it's used every time there's a mass shooting, given the numbrs of such events there must be a lot of mentally ill people here, and there's evidence to support that, they just elected Trump again!
 
pocco said:
I thought it turned out that he was, after all, following some Al Qaeda texts online? May have been radicalised or he’s took himself down that path through a combination of his own beliefs and what he was reading?
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As far as we currently know, he was interested in mass killings and killers.

He did get charged with offences under the terrorism act. Police found an Al Qaeda training manual and the ingredients for making ricin when they searched his house.

As far as they can tell he was more interested in the methods than the authors or the ideology. He had a lot of stuff on US school shootings and similar events.

One of the things mentioned in the court case was that he tried to go to his old school the week before. His father sent the taxi away that day.
 
2mufc0 said:
Whilst I have little sympathy for the scumbag, don't think we should be promoting racists at the same time.
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State of things on X at the mo, i'd put money on this being some AI voice shite made exactly for that purpose.
 
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